Aren't all roguelikes playable in 10 minute bursts? Of course death in roguelikes is final, but you can still save your progress.

In Nethack I'm pretty sure you can do a 10 or 15 minute run to Gnometown - if your character survives that, you have a good base for further exploration. Getting one guy there unharmed and finding an aligned temple will take 10 tries or so, enough for a week of lunchtimes.

Next, you can try taking that successful guy to Sokoban. If you survive that as well, you can save him as an ascension candidate - and play that during your next holiday.

I don't see the need for a roguelike that's winnable in 10 minutes myself, simply because you can set yourself equivalent goals in existing roguelikes. 

The #terrafuncites in this picture:

http://www.citylife.co.uk/img/12755/19536_youknowsit_glc.jpg

I can spot cardo, vondur, and pope. 

i think the beardo in the back is scampie. 

for those that dont know Carol, there it goes!

http://www.carolmulder.nl/yarrrhappy.jpg

http://carolmulder.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2009/05/03/backstabbed.jpg

http://carolmulder.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2009/10/17/quakemas0910.jpg

http://www.carolmulder.nl/gallery/UnshapedPLTS.jpg

http://www.carolmulder.nl/gallery/quadpussy.jpg

http://carolmulder.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/bombfield1_1.jpg

http://www.carolmulder.nl/gallery/fishyquakeworld.jpg 

don't know why but I'm getting a strong CZG vibe from the little bald dude with the headband. 

I want the last one in my bathroom :S 

disclaimer: no, I've not tried this in the real world 

Your email address is dead ("User unknown"). Please mail me! 

Ah yes, forgot to update it on my account here!
Now updated.

new address is jonmiles1 AT gmail

Sorry about that. 

Who has heard from ijed? 

I had a dream that EPICs main offices were in Finland and that I was beer drinking buddies with CliffyB and Tim Sweeney. And I was like, I want to gtfo from my job and work with you guys and they were like, OK dude.

And then I woke up. 

youre participation has led your dreams to the
ground zero of ID's restrickted license area. 

that seems so fuck to me? 

that doesn't seem so fuck to me? 

and no. 

 

Ye!!!

let�s drink to that!!! 

how are you? Are your family and friends ok? 

We didn't really have the worst of it although we were visiting family in the middle of nowhere and closer to the epicentre.

The worst was in Concepcion where a tsunami killed a few hundred people and levelled a district or two. 

Glad to hear that you & yours are fine. 

While I dislike them for numerous reasons Valve has kept a lot of game developer spirit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/b7yx3/mystery_achievement_added_to_portal_patch_notes/c0lescn 

That is amazing stuff, it is a real shame that more developers don't do events like this. It really gets everyone involved in the game, even if it is old. That BBS dialup number will be constantly ringing for weeks! :P 

I intented to add this link to the post but then I forgot: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=7327 

 

running the multiplayer demo is now up at:

bigfoot.quake1.net:26001

Server in Europe (Germany I think).

You must have the demo content installed to play, of course.

http://www.quake-1.com/files/modfiles/RemakeQuakeMPDemo_20091211.zip

Fitzquake can't connect to port 26001 apparently, so you need to use a netquake engine that is online-ready. I used Darkplaces.

The multiplayer types I was testing with (peg, nitro, metch and others) have said that RMQ's multiplayer is a very promising mod. It is very well liked, which surprised us a little, not least because the release is over two months old. A patch is being worked on to fix the pile of issues that cropped up, mostly things to do with bots and voting.

Come play with us!